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Murray, thanks to both of you. Thanks for watching our msnbc special. Find me on weeknights. Its the beet, 6 00 p. M. Eastern. It started as a 30minute phone call between two president s. It erupted into a fullscale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. Today im announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Our president sacrificed our National Security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. Theyve been trying to impeach me from the day i got elected. And you know what . They failed. Youve seen the headlines. ...

Immunity. >> this president has achieved a new low. >> reporter: and belittling his accusers. >> these people are stone-cold crooked. >> reporter: and as for the likely next step, a senate trial. even the republicans held a solid majority during clinton's impeachment. several gop senators crossed over to help democrats defeat the charges. for trump, the republicans are in charge again, but this time while democratic leaders say their members should vote as they wish, republicans -- >> my hope is that there won't be a single republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment. >> r...

>> reporter: still democrats say clinton lied about a personal matter, while trump used taxpayer dollars to strong-arm a foreign ally for his own political ambitions >> there is no higher crime than for the president to use the power of his office to corrupt our elections. >> reporter: and then there is congress. clinton and trump each faced a house of representatives controlled by the opposition party. both arguing the investigations were partisan hit jobs. both resisting participation. clinton, by insisting on specific terms for his testimony. trump by going much further, instructing his tea...

>> trump's doing this because he knows i'll beat him like a drum. >> what i saw biden do with his son, he is pillaging these countries and he's hurting us. >> this is outrageous. you have never seen anything like this from any president. >> biden and his son are stone-cold crooked. >> on a bitter-cold day in january 2009, joe biden walked through the streets of the nation's capital, having just been sworn in as the 47th vice president of the united states. his family by his side, including his son hunter. under president obama, vice president biden was given special responsibility for ukraine.

>> trump's doing this because he knows i'll beat him like a drum. >> what i saw biden do with his son, he is pillaging these countries and he's hurting us. >> this is outrageous. you have never seen anything like this from any president. >> biden and his son are stone-cold crooked. >> on a bitter-cold day in january 2009, joe biden walked through the streets of the nation's capital, having just been sworn in as the 47th vice president of the united states. his family by his side, including his son hunter. under president obama, vice president biden was given special responsibility for